Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Character

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

Collins, Marva

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

Confucius

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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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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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 - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Baldwin, Faith

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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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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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Estrange, L.

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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