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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Collins, Marva

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Peter The Great

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

Thurber, James

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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

Brown, Les

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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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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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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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.

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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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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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

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