Motivational Quotes

Character

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

- Abbott, Lyman

Best Quotes about Character

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

Elmer G. Letterman

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Francis Thompson

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Collins, Marva

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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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

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

Royal, Darrell

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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.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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

Mason, John L.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Peter The Great

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Michener, James A.

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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