Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Collins, Marva

Best Quotes about Character

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

Horace

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Buddha

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James A. Froude

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

Maritain, Jacques

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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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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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Solon

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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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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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