Motivational Quotes

Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Character

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Francis Thompson

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Michener, James A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Mohammed

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Voltaire

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Solon

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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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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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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.