Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Taylor, Bayard

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

James A. Froude

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Hermann Hesse

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Mason, John L.

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mohammed

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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 is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Hay, Colin

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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