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

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

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Merikare

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

12.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

21.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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

24.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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.

30.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Aristotle

32.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

33.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Hall, Manly

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

Marie Leneru

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

40.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe