Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Howell, Harry

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Aristotle

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hall, Manly

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Confucius

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 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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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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

34.

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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

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

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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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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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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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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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