Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Fitzwater, P. B.

Best Quotes about Character

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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.

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.

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.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Guideposts

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hall, Manly

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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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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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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

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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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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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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

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Mohammed

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Peter The Great