Motivational Quotes

Character

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Character

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Thurber, James

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

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

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Solon

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

Greeley, Horace

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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.

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mohammed

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.