Motivational Quotes

Character

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Character

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mason, John L.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Voltaire

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

Mohammed

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Francis Thompson

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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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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Royal, Darrell

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Euripides

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

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

Bible

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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