Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is simply habit long continued.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Character

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

Royal, Darrell

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.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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

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

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Seneca

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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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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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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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 appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Michener, James A.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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