Motivational Quotes

Character

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

- Gill, Vince

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

Aristotle

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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.

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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Seneca

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Collins, Marva

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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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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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Proverb

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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 empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana