Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hay, Colin

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

Baldwin, Faith

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Horace

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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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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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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

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

Mason, John L.

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.