Motivational Quotes

Character

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

- Gardner, Ava

Best Quotes about Character

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

Mohammed

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

Hay, Colin

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

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.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Collins, Marva

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Merikare

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

Mason, John L.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Hall, Manly

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

James A. Froude

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Voltaire

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Thurber, James

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

Estrange, L.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg