Motivational Quotes

Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Horace

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Euripides

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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