Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hall, Manly

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Howell, Harry

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

Seneca

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.

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Voltaire

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.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Joan Didion

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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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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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.