Motivational Quotes

Character

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

- Montale, Eugenio

Best Quotes about Character

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

Confucius

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Elmer G. Letterman

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Merikare

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Voltaire

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Solon

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

Hay, Colin

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

James A. Froude

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Bible

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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