Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Character

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Francis Thompson

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

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Mohammed

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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Hay, Colin

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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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

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Freeman, Robert

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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

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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.