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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collins, Marva

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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

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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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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Brown, Les

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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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