Motivational Quotes

Character

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

- Abbott, Lyman

Best Quotes about Character

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

Horace

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Peter The Great

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thurber, James

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Solon

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur