Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

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

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

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

Collins, Marva

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Voltaire

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

19.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

20.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

23.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

24.

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

25.

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

Karr, Alphonse

26.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

30.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

31.

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

Royal, Darrell

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

34.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Buddha

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

40.

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

41.

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

42.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

44.

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

45.

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

Mason, John L.

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You must look into people, as well as at them.