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

Best Quotes about Character
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Shakespeare, William
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander
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.
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
Royal, Darrell
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.
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
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Proverb, Chinese
Character is our destiny.
Heraclitus
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.
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Reagan, Ronald
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
Lubbock, Sir John
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Collins, Marva
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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
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
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Wilson, Woodrow T.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Aquinas, St. Thomas
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.
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Peter The Great
Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.
Thoreau, Henry David
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
Thurber, James
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
Brown, Les
It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.
Howell, Harry
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Richards, Mary Caroline
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
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
Strindberg, J. August
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Cicero, Marcus T.
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
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
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Maritain, Jacques
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.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Crisp, Quentin
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.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Gill, Vince
Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
Hill, Napoleon
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