Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Crisp, Quentin

Best Quotes about Character

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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 our destiny.

Heraclitus

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Seneca

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

Mohammed

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

Bible

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Hermann Hesse

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

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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