Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Character

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

Proverb

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Guideposts

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Mohammed

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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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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Karr, Alphonse

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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

28.

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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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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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

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

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

33.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Horace

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

42.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

43.

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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.

Marie Leneru

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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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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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