Motivational Quotes

Character

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Joan Didion

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

Merikare

11.

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

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

Euripides

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

16.

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

Freeman, Robert

18.

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

20.

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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Estrange, L.

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

26.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Hay, Colin

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Michener, James A.

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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.