Motivational Quotes

Character

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

- Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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 is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Mohammed

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Merikare

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

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Freeman, Robert

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Seneca

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