Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

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

Mason, John 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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Brown, Les

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

James A. Froude

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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 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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Solon

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

Michener, James A.

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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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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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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Disraeli, Benjamin