Motivational Quotes

Character

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

- Karr, Alphonse

Best Quotes about Character

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

Guideposts

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Voltaire

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Mohammed

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

Bible

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

Royal, Darrell

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Hall, Manly

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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