Motivational Quotes

Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Francis Thompson

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Peter The Great

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Buddha

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

Royal, Darrell

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Brown, Les

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

James A. Froude

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Seneca

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.