Motivational Quotes

Character

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

- Oscar Levant

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Horace

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

18.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

21.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Mohammed

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hay, Colin

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Collins, Marva

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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.