Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Peter The Great

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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Bible

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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 is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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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.

33.

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

Hay, Colin

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

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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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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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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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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

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Merikare

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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