Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Francis Thompson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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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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

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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

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

Proverb

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Estrange, L.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Peter The Great

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

Bible

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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.

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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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