Motivational Quotes

Character

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

- Washington, Booker T.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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 lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Collins, Marva

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Bible

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Voltaire

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo