Motivational Quotes

Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Character

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

18.

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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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

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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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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 is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Hay, Colin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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