Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Merikare

Best Quotes about Character

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Marie Leneru

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

Joan Didion

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Elihu Burritt

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

Francis Thompson

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

Horace

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

Thurber, James

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

Leneru, Marie

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

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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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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

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Mohammed

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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 a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.