Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Collins, Marva

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Proverb, Chinese

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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 the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Horace

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

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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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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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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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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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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.

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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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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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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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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

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.