Motivational Quotes

Character

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

- Karr, Alphonse

Best Quotes about Character

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

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Royal, Darrell

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

Hall, Manly

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Hay, Colin

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

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