Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Character

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

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

Horace

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Guideposts

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

Mohammed

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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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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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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 hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Merikare

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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