Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Collins, Marva

Best Quotes about Character

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

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

Royal, Darrell

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Horace

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Peter The Great

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

Buddha

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

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De