Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Character

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Hay, Colin

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.

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

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

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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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Buddha

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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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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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

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

Thomas, John M.

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Horace

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

Hall, Manly

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

Hermann Hesse