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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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.

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.

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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 part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Hall, Manly

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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