Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Character

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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.

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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

James A. Froude

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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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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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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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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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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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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert