Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Character

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

Marie Leneru

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Baldwin, Faith

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

23.

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

James A. Froude

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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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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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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

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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

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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

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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 have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline