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

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Francis Thompson

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Horace

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Bible

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

James A. Froude

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Mason, John L.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon