Motivational Quotes

Character

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Proverb

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Freeman, Robert

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Baldwin, Faith

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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