Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Leneru, Marie

Best Quotes about Character

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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.

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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Michener, James A.

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

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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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.

27.

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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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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

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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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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Estrange, L.

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Leneru, Marie

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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Collins, Marva

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

Richter, Jean Paul