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

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Michener, James A.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Guideposts

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Solon

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

Estrange, L.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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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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

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Crisp, Quentin

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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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 contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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