Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Taylor, Bayard

Best Quotes about Character

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Collins, Marva

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.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Michener, James A.

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Seneca

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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 the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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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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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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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

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert