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

Freeman, Robert

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Confucius

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Peter The Great

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

Euripides

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

33.

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

38.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Mason, John L.

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.