Motivational Quotes

Character

Integrity has no need of rules.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Character

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

Greeley, Horace

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Michener, James A.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Richter, Jean Paul

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Mason, John L.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mohammed

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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.

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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Elihu Burritt

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

James A. Froude

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Voltaire

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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