Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Gill, Vince

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

Voltaire

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

Royal, Darrell

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

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

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Bible

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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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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

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Estrange, L.

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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, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of