Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Baldwin, Faith

Best Quotes about Character

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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Collins, Marva

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

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

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

Crisp, Quentin

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Hermann Hesse

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Solon

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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Baldwin, Faith

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Estrange, L.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Hall, Manly

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.