Motivational Quotes

Character

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

- Gill, Vince

Best Quotes about Character

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

Confucius

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

Hall, Manly

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Proverb

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

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

Joan Didion

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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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Collins, Marva

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Royal, Darrell

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant