Motivational Quotes

Character

You must look into people, as well as at them.

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Character

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Horace

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Solon

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

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Bible

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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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 highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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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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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Collins, Marva

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.