Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Seneca

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Royal, Darrell

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Freeman, Robert

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie