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

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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.

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.

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

Michener, James A.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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 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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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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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

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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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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.

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Mohammed

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

Proverb, Chinese

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Voltaire

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

Euripides