Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Character

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb

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

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

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

James A. Froude

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.

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

Gill, Vince

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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 another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Mohammed

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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.