Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

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

Estrange, L.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Proverb

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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

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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 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 take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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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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