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

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

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Leneru, Marie

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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

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

Aristotle

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Voltaire