Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Mohammed

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

Estrange, L.

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Confucius

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Solon

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Collins, Marva

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

Guideposts

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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