Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Freeman, Robert

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hay, Colin

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Solon

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

Voltaire

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Baldwin, Faith