Motivational Quotes

Character

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

- Karr, Alphonse

Best Quotes about Character

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Collins, Marva

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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Chambers, Oswald

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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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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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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 always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Proverb

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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 is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Proverb

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Mason, John L.

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas