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

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

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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.

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

Leneru, Marie

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James A. Froude

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Collins, Marva

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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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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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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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Seneca

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mason, John L.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

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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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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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