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

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Solon

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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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

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

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Estrange, L.

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

Confucius

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Guideposts

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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 is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton