Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Michener, James A.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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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.

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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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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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 the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Voltaire

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Mason, John L.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus