Motivational Quotes

Character

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

- Marie Leneru

Best Quotes about Character

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon