Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Crisp, Quentin

Best Quotes about Character

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

Elmer G. Letterman

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

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.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Guideposts

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Mohammed

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

Brown, Les

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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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.

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

Hay, Colin

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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Collins, Marva

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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