Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Estrange, L.

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Peter The Great

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

Proverb

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

34.

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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.