Motivational Quotes

Character

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

- Gill, Vince

Best Quotes about Character

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Guideposts

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Michener, James A.

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Mohammed

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Peter The Great

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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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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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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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