Motivational Quotes

Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Richter, Jean Paul

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Chambers, Oswald

11.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Voltaire

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Aristotle

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

Peter The Great

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

Michener, James A.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

36.

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

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Guideposts

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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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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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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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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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

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

Seneca

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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.