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

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Karr, Alphonse

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Guideposts

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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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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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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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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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.

23.

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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Estrange, L.

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

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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

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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 is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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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.

Bulger, William M.

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

Royal, Darrell

43.

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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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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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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Elihu Burritt

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha