Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Elmer G. Letterman

Best Quotes about Character

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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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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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Hermann Hesse

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Joan Didion

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

Mohammed

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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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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Mason, John L.

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Hall, Manly

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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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.