Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Merikare

Best Quotes about Character

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horace

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gill, Vince

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.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Bible

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Estrange, L.

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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Euripides

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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