Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Francis Thompson

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Mohammed

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Royal, Darrell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Proverb

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Confucius

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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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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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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 not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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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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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hall, Manly