Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Character

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

Leneru, Marie

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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.

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

James A. Froude

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

19.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Proverb

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

27.

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

Merikare

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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

31.

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

Thurber, James

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

33.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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

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

Royal, Darrell

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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