Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

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

Francis Thompson

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

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

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

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Bible

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

Brown, Les

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Taylor, Bayard

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas