Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Character

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Mohammed

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Michener, James A.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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