Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lubbock, Sir John

Best Quotes about Character

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

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

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Collins, Marva

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

Hall, Manly

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bible

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

Hay, Colin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Elihu Burritt

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Michener, James A.

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