Motivational Quotes

Character

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Character

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.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Seneca

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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 the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Mason, John L.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Mohammed

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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

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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