Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Character

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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.

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Elmer G. Letterman

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Confucius

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

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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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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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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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

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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.

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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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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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.