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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Elihu Burritt

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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Mason, John L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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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

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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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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 victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Confucius

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

James A. Froude

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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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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