Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hay, Colin

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Buddha

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Collins, Marva

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Peter The Great

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Thomas, John M.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry