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

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

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Horace

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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.

Marie Leneru

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Hay, Colin

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Maritain, Jacques

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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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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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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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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.

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.