Motivational Quotes

Character

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

- Merikare

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hay, Colin

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Voltaire

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Thurber, James

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Francis Thompson

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

32.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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.

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Guideposts

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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