Motivational Quotes

Character

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

- Marie Henri Beyle

Best Quotes about Character

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.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

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

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

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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 sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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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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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Mohammed

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Michener, James A.

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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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

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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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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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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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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Thurber, James

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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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.