Motivational Quotes

Character

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Character

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

Gill, Vince

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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.

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

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Mohammed

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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Michener, James A.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Solon

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

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

Collins, Marva

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

Hermann Hesse

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Confucius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Proverb, Chinese