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

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Brown, Les

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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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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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mason, John L.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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

James A. Froude

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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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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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