Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Elmer G. Letterman

Best Quotes about Character

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

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Proverb

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Mason, John L.

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

Freeman, Robert

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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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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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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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Solon