Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Character

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Proverb

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Mason, John L.

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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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.

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

Solon

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Peter The Great

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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.

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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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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon