Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Fitzwater, P. B.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Richter, Jean Paul

19.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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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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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Francis Thompson

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Hall, Manly

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

36.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Voltaire