Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Hay, Colin

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

James A. Froude

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Bible

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mason, John L.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Seneca

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

Collins, Marva

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

Horace

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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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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Chambers, Oswald

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.