Motivational Quotes

Character

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

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

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Mason, John L.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Royal, Darrell

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Confucius

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

Greeley, Horace

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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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 is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lubbock, Sir John