Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Character

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Confucius

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

Collins, Marva

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Guideposts

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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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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

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

Hay, Colin

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Horace

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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