Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Freeman, Robert

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

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

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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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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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

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Collins, Marva

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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 is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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

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

Brown, Les

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mason, John L.

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Shakespeare, William

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.