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

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Freeman, Robert

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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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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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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.

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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