Motivational Quotes

Character

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Character

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Horace

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

Gill, Vince

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Proverb

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Mason, John L.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Collins, Marva

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Mohammed

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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 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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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