Motivational Quotes

Character

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

- Oscar Levant

Best Quotes about Character

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

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

Hay, Colin

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Confucius

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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

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

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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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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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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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Michener, James A.

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Merikare

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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.

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

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