Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Gill, Vince

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

Chambers, Oswald

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mohammed

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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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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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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A man's character is his fate.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Euripides

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

Guideposts

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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Bible

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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.

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Hepburn, Katharine