Motivational Quotes

Character

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

- Marie Leneru

Best Quotes about Character

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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

Merikare

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Michener, James A.

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

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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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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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.