Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Proverb

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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Gill, Vince

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

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

Michener, James A.

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Solon

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

Brown, Les

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Merikare

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Euripides

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

Estrange, L.

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Collins, Marva

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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 is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hermann Hesse

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton