Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Fitzwater, P. B.

Best Quotes about Character

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Marie Leneru

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 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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Confucius

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Howell, Harry

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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

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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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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus