Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Michener, James A.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Karr, Alphonse

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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

Mohammed

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.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Buddha

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Hall, Manly

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.