Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Character

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

Mohammed

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

Proverb, Chinese

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hay, Colin

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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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.

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

Merikare

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

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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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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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bisset, Jacqueline