Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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.

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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Bible

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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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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

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Voltaire

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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

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hall, Manly

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Angelou, Maya