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

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Francis Thompson

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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 superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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 higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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 is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Proverb

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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