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

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Michener, James A.

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

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Marie Leneru

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Voltaire

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William