Motivational Quotes

Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Character

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Nathaniel Emmons

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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.

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Hall, Manly

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

Seneca

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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

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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 is a victory, not a gift.

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Voltaire

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Buddha

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Disraeli, Benjamin