Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

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

Merikare

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

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

Mohammed

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

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Hermann Hesse

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

James A. Froude

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

Shakespeare, William

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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.

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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 should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horace

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

Proverb

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Solon

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

Peter The Great

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Guideposts

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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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.

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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.