Motivational Quotes

Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marie Leneru

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Merikare

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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

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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Guideposts

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Mohammed

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

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.