Motivational Quotes

Character

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Character

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Confucius

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Francis Thompson

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

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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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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

29.

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Mason, John L.

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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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.

Marie Leneru

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony