Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Francis Thompson

Best Quotes about Character

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.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Reagan, Ronald

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Hepburn, Katharine

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Brown, Les

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Royal, Darrell

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hall, Manly

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Solon

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

Mason, John L.

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse