Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lubbock, Sir John

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hay, Colin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Francis Thompson

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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

Voltaire

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

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

Michener, James A.

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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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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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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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mason, John L.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.