Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Character

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

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

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Thomas, John M.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Voltaire

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Gill, Vince

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Elihu Burritt

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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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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 don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru