Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Elmer G. Letterman

Best Quotes about Character

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Aristotle

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Collins, Marva

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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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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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

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William