Motivational Quotes

Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Character

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

Chambers, Oswald

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

10.

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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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

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Seneca

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Mason, John L.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

James A. Froude

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

Guideposts

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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 hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Royal, Darrell

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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.