Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Royal, Darrell

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

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.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Crisp, Quentin

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.

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.

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.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

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

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Chambers, Oswald

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya