Motivational Quotes

Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Character

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Greeley, Horace

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

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

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

Voltaire

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Mason, John L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Francis Thompson

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Guideposts

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

Bible

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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 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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Proverb

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Thomas, John M.

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

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

Michener, James A.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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