Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Aristotle

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

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Royal, Darrell

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Mohammed

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Euripides

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

Brown, Les

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Hall, Manly

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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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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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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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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 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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Mason, John L.

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

Solon

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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 like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln