Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Character

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Baldwin, Faith

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Proverb

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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 impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Guideposts

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

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Hay, Colin

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Solon

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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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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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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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander