Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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

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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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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

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

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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

Seneca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Michener, James A.

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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 take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Euripides

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Hall, Manly

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell