Motivational Quotes

Character

Integrity has no need of rules.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Character

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Thomas, John M.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Voltaire

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

Proverb

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Mason, John L.

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

Royal, Darrell

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Solon

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Horace