Motivational Quotes

Character

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

- Abbott, Lyman

Best Quotes about Character

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

Petrarch, Francesco

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Michener, James A.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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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.

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Euripides

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Royal, Darrell

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

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Seneca

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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.

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

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Voltaire

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Estrange, L.

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Guideposts

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

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

Collins, Marva

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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