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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

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

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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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 man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James A. Froude

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

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Proverb

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Seneca

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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

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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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