Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Character

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Crisp, Quentin

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

Collins, Marva

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Merikare

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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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

Hay, Colin

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

Mason, John L.

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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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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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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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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