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

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Freeman, Robert

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Voltaire

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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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 - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Fitzwater, P. B.