Motivational Quotes

Character

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Character

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

Karr, Alphonse

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Mason, John L.

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

Solon

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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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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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

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

James A. Froude

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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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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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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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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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Collins, Marva

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Michener, James A.

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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