Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Brown, Les

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Elihu Burritt

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.

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

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

Hermann Hesse

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Estrange, L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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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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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

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mohammed

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