Motivational Quotes

Character

Integrity has no need of rules.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Character

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Marie Leneru

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

Lubbock, Sir John

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mohammed

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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Collins, Marva

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Proverb

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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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Horace

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Solon

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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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