Motivational Quotes

Character

Integrity has no need of rules.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Character

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.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mohammed

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

Greeley, Horace

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Horace

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

James A. Froude

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

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

Collins, Marva

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas