Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Character

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Merikare

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Peter The Great

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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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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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

14.

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

Hay, Colin

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Mason, John L.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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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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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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.

32.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Francis Thompson

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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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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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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

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buddha

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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.