Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lubbock, Sir John

Best Quotes about Character

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

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

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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

13.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Guideposts

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

17.

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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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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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

21.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hermann Hesse

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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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