Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Gill, Vince

Best Quotes about Character

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

Royal, Darrell

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

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

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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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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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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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

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Solon

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Thurber, James

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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