Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lubbock, Sir John

Best Quotes about Character

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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.

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

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Estrange, L.

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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.

Marie Leneru

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

Mason, John L.

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

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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

Royal, Darrell

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.