Motivational Quotes

Character

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

- Michener, James A.

Best Quotes about Character

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Collins, Marva

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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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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

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

Seneca

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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 sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.