Motivational Quotes

Character

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Character

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

Buddha

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

Hepburn, Katharine

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

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

Peter The Great

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Solon

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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

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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.

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Chambers, Oswald

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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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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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Freeman, Robert

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Hermann Hesse

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Thomas, John M.