Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Thomas, John M.

Best Quotes about Character

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Horace

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

Mason, John L.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Peter The Great

11.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

12.

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

Mohammed

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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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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Chesterfield, Lord

21.

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

Hay, Colin

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Francis Thompson

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

32.

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 isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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