Motivational Quotes

Character

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Character

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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.

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

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Mason, John L.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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

Collins, Marva

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

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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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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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

Michener, James A.

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Peter The Great

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Brown, Les

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Hay, Colin

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Bible

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Euripides