Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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.

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Michener, James A.

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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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.

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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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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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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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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 is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Proverb

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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.