Motivational Quotes

Character

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

- Gardner, Ava

Best Quotes about Character

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

2.

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.

3.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

4.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

5.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

6.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

7.

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

8.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

10.

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

Karr, Alphonse

11.

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

15.

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

16.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

Royal, Darrell

20.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

21.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

22.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

27.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

29.

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

30.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

31.

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

Hay, Colin

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

35.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

36.

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

Taylor, Bayard

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

40.

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

46.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

47.

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

Hall, Manly

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