Motivational Quotes

Character

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

- Montale, Eugenio

Best Quotes about Character

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

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Reagan, Ronald

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Hall, Manly

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

Guideposts

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Michener, James A.

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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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 contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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