Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

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

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

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

10.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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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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.

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

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

Michener, James A.

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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 not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Proverb

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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.