Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Character

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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.

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

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Aristotle

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Gill, Vince

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Royal, Darrell

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 is a victory, not a gift.

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.