Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Baldwin, Faith

Best Quotes about Character

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

Solon

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Hermann Hesse

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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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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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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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Peter The Great

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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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