Motivational Quotes

Character

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

- Francis Thompson

Best Quotes about Character

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Freeman, Robert

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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

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

Thurber, James

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Proverb

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

Hermann Hesse

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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

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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 about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Mohammed

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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.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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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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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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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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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell