Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peter The Great

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Karr, Alphonse

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Royal, Darrell

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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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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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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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 have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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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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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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