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

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

Angelou, Maya

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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.

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

32.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Guideposts

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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