Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Hay, Colin

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Mohammed

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Voltaire

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Solon

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Horace

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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 another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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

Bible

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell