Motivational Quotes

Character

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

- William Carleton

Best Quotes about Character

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Michener, James A.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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

Collins, Marva

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Horace

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Royal, Darrell

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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 is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald