Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Estrange, L.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Crisp, Quentin

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

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.

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

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Merikare

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hay, Colin

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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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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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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon