Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bible

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

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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 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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Proverb

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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