Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Proverb

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Confucius

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Mohammed

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

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

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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 is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Thurber, James

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Michener, James A.

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

Merikare

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius