Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Taylor, Bayard

Best Quotes about Character

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

Francis Thompson

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.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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

Taylor, Bayard

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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.

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

Estrange, L.

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Collins, Marva

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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 have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Mohammed

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.