Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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.

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

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hall, Manly

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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

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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 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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Bible

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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 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.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Francis Thompson

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

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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 don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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.