Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

10.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

11.

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

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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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.

28.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John 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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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

46.

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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.