Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Hall, Manly

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Proverb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Mason, John L.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Hay, Colin

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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Petrarch, Francesco