Motivational Quotes

Character

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Character

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

Joan Didion

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

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

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Michener, James A.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Gill, Vince

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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