Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Elmer G. Letterman

Best Quotes about Character

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Joan Didion

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

Leneru, Marie

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya