Motivational Quotes

Character

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thurber, James

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

Euripides

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mason, John L.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hermann Hesse

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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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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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Collins, Marva

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

Seneca

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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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 victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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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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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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.