Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Horace

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

Chesterfield, Lord

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

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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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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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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mohammed

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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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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

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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 is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Royal, Darrell

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons