Motivational Quotes

Character

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Character

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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.

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

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Elihu Burritt

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

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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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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Bible

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

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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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

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Hay, Colin

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

Hall, Manly

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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