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

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

Crisp, Quentin

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Guideposts

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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 is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Mason, John L.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Mohammed

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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 happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Proverb, Chinese