Motivational Quotes

Character

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Character

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.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Buddha

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

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marie Leneru

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Solon

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Royal, Darrell

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Elihu Burritt

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger