Motivational Quotes

Character

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

- Thomas, John M.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Mason, John L.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Estrange, L.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Gill, Vince

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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.

35.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

37.

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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Michener, James A.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides