Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is victory organized.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Character

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Hay, Colin

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

Guideposts

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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 to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell