Motivational Quotes

Character

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

- Solon

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hall, Manly

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.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Bible

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.