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.

- Marie Leneru

Best Quotes about Character

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Freeman, Robert

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

Michener, James A.

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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Collins, Marva

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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.

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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Buddha

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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