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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Peter The Great

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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

Marie Leneru

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Brown, Les

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mason, John L.

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Mohammed

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Seneca

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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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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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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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