Motivational Quotes

Character

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

- Washington, Booker T.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

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

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

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Mason, John L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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 the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Seneca

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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.

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

Francis Thompson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Michener, James A.