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

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

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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 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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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker 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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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