Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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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 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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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.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hay, Colin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Collins, Marva

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