Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

- Parkhurst, Charles H.

Best Quotes about Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thurber, James

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

James A. Froude

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Horace

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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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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's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Hay, Colin

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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