Motivational Quotes

Character

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

- Marie Henri Beyle

Best Quotes about Character

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Thomas, John M.

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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 to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Seneca

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