Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Fitzwater, P. B.

Best Quotes about Character

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Collins, Marva

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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

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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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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Michener, James A.

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Hall, Manly

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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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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, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Leneru, Marie

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant