Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Howell, Harry

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Estrange, L.

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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.

28.

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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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Buddha

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert