Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Fitzwater, P. B.

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Peter The Great

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Solon

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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.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Hermann Hesse

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Hay, Colin

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.