Motivational Quotes

Character

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

- Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Best Quotes about Character

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

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.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

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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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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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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, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Proverb

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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