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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Guideposts

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Bible

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

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

James A. Froude

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Royal, Darrell

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