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

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 formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Guideposts

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Euripides

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Voltaire

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

Michener, James A.

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Hay, Colin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Hermann Hesse

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Proverb

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

Thurber, James

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

Collins, Marva

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

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo