Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Character

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.

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Buddha

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

Proverb

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Mohammed

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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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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

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mason, John L.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Confucius

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

Joan Didion

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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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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Solon

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

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

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

39.

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

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

Merikare

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.