Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Michener, James A.

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Voltaire

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

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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 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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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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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 victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

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

Mason, John L.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Horace

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

Confucius

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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Karr, Alphonse

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.