Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Collins, Marva

Best Quotes about Character

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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 rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Voltaire

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Hall, Manly

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

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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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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

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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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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