Motivational Quotes

Character

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

- Gardner, Ava

Best Quotes about Character

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

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

10.

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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Proverb

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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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

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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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 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

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

Mohammed

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.