Motivational Quotes

Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Character

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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.

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

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

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

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Freeman, Robert

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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.