Motivational Quotes

Character

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

- Peter The Great

Best Quotes about Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Buddha

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Hall, Manly

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Collins, Marva

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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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Thurber, James

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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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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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Hermann Hesse

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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