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

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Solon

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Voltaire

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Guideposts

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

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

Seneca

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin