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

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.

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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.

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

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.

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

Peter The Great

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Buddha

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mohammed

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Francis Thompson

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Guideposts

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Solon

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

Estrange, L.

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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 is simply habit long continued.