Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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

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

Peter The Great

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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

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

Aristotle

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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

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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