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

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

Proverb

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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

Merikare

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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

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

Francis Thompson

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

Horace

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Collins, Marva

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Estrange, L.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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