Motivational Quotes

Character

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

- Washington, Booker T.

Best Quotes about Character

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Seneca

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Peter The Great

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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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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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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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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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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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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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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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