Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Collins, Marva

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Confucius

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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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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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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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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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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