Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Hall, Manly

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

Proverb

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Crisp, Quentin

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

11.

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

Mason, John L.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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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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.

30.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Bible

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

48.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch