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

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Chambers, Oswald

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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