Motivational Quotes

Character

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Character

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.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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.

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

Bible

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Proverb

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Elihu Burritt

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Merikare

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

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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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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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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 empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William