Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

James A. Froude

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

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Proverb

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Hay, Colin

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hall, Manly

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William