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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
- George Santayana
Character Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Character

1.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius

2.
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.

3.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Wooden, John

4.
Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

5.
Character is victory organized.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

6.
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

7.
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
Marie Henri Beyle

8.
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.

9.
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln

10.
Character is a victory, not a gift.

11.
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

12.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

13.
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

14.
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
Joan Didion

15.
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

16.
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

17.
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Shakespeare, William

18.
Integrity has no need of rules.
Camus, Albert

19.
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
Lubbock, Sir John

20.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Lincoln, Abraham

21.
If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.
Mohammed

22.
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

23.
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
King Jr. Martin Luther

24.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua

25.
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
Elmer G. Letterman

26.
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
Buddha

27.
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
Thurber, James

28.
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.
Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

30.
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Buren, Abigail Van

31.
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathaniel Emmons

32.
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.

33.
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
Proverb

34.
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.

35.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Disraeli, Benjamin

37.
Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.
Merikare

38.
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

39.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Michener, James A.

41.
Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

42.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse

43.
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

44.
Character is our destiny.
Heraclitus

45.
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

46.
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

47.
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
Haliburton, Thomas C.

48.
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

49.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

50.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


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