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

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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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.

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Mason, John L.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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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.

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Peter The Great

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Solon

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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