Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Collins, Marva

Best Quotes about Character

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Solon

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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 that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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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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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Mohammed

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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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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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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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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 sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.