C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Character is what you have when nobody is looking.”
“Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.”
“Character is when alone and nobody is watching while behavior is when one is in the stage spotlight.”
“Character is who you are in dark this especially when nobody sees you. Your true character shows more when you are rich or in a leadership position while fake character shows when you are poor and still struggling.”
Source: The Hour of Temptation
“Character is who you are when no one is looking.”
“Character is who you are when nobody else is watching,” he wrote in one of his books—the undeniable, hokey truth.”
Source: The Rules Do Not Apply
“Character is worth more than anything else in the whole wide world.”
Source: Daniel, Man of God: Being a Man of Character in a Babylon World
“Character is your beauty; style is your strength.”
“Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.”
“Character isn't all about becoming a saint or perfect. No one is perfect! There are areas we all are working on to improve and fine tune..”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“Character isn’t defined by who we pretend to be to survive — it’s who we are when the mask falls.”
Source: Silentwhisper
“Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want.”
“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.”
“Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.”
“Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.”
“Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular school district, was simply used to illustrate this position.”
“Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.”
“Character makes its own destiny.”
“Character makes the person, not pedigree and tradition.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Character makes trust possible and trust makes great leadership possible.”
Source: The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness
“Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.”
Source: The Law of Solid Ground: Lesson 6 from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
“Character matters; leadership descends from character.”
“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
Source: Rhetoric
“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”
“Character means everything that is human about you… Character means a sense of community - character means a desire for learning and growth - character means the guts to admit and mend one's own errors and shortcomings - character means the yearning for assimilation.”
Source: Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto
“Character modification requires active participation in challenging new experiences, but without reflection upon our encounters in life and the purposeful alteration in our base philosophy new experiences alone will not result in core personality changes. Our thoughts become our habits, and our habits reveal our character. Only by thinking and acting differently will a person attain the quality of character that they seek.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Character must be kept bright as well as clean.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Character, my identity;
Conscience, my guide.
Honor is my defense,
Heart is my tide.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Character never quits; and with patience and persistence; Dreams do come true!”
“Character No Commodity (The Sonnet)
Character, I say, is no commodity,
To be traded in for luxury.
Integrity, I say, is no commodity,
To be traded in for security,
Virtues, I say, are no commodity,
To be traded in for applause.
Values, I say, are no commodity,
To be traded in for comfort.
Warmth, I say, is no commodity,
To be traded in for image.
Humility, I say, is no commodity,
To be traded in for respect.
A life without honor, I say,
Is a life totally gone astray.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.”
Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects
“Character of any person is the aggregate of his or her conscientious tendencies - the sum total of the knacks of the civilized part of the mind.”
Source: The Education Decree
“Character of the individual becomes the character of the world.”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“Character: our habitual way of operating. HOW we are is WHO we are!”
Source: Becoming a Leader of Character: 6 Habits That Make or Break a Leader at Work and at Home
“Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]”
Source: The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
“Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.”
“Character refers to dispositions and habits that determine the way that person normally responds to desires, fears, challenges, opportunities, failures and successes.”
“Character represent life and life represents our character.”
Source: Stranded
“Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.”
“Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.”
“Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.”
“Character, simply stated, is doing what you say you’re going to do.”
Source: The 3 Gaps: Are You Making a Difference?
“Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As with every other element in fiction, it is a record of a writer’s decisions.”
“Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.”
Source: Prose-poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Character teaches above our wills.”
Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays
“Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions.”
Source: Healology
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
Source: On Self-Respect
“Character, character, character. First, second and third ... we were pretty rusty initially. When you have a break for a few weeks you get a bit of rust.”
“Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.”
“Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.”