Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Solon

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.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Mason, John L.

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Michener, James A.

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

Voltaire

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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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.

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Freeman, Robert

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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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