Motivational Quotes

Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Character

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

James A. Froude

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

Proverb

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

Hall, Manly

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

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Leneru, Marie

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.

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Merikare

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

18.

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

Peter The Great

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hay, Colin

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

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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

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

Guideposts

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Brown, Les

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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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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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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

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil