Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Solon

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

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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Brown, Les

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Mason, John L.

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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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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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

James A. Froude

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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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Freeman, Robert

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hall, Manly

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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 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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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