Motivational Quotes

Character

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

- Lebowitz, Fran

Best Quotes about Character

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

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

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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

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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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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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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 contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Collins, Marva

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

Bible

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