Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lubbock, Sir John

Best Quotes about Character

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Francis Thompson

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

Leneru, Marie

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Mohammed

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Buddha

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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.

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Mason, John L.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Collins, Marva

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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