Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomas, John M.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hay, Colin

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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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Virgil

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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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Horace

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.