Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Fitzwater, P. B.

Best Quotes about Character

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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 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

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

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Voltaire

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Michener, James A.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Joan Didion

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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.

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

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

Mason, John L.

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon