Motivational Quotes

Character

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

- Lebowitz, Fran

Best Quotes about Character

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

Estrange, L.

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

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

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

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Thomas, John M.

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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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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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

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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Proverb

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Voltaire

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.