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

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Solon

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

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

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

Peter The Great

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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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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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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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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 to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Michener, James A.

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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