Motivational Quotes

Character

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

- Dyke, Henry Van

Best Quotes about Character

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Angelou, Maya

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Estrange, L.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Michener, James A.

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Solon

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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston