Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Character

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

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

Marie Leneru

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

Thackeray, William M.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Thomas, John M.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Peter The Great

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Brown, Les

31.

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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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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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Horace

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Guideposts

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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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