Motivational Quotes

Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Character

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Seneca

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Hall, Manly

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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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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

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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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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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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Royal, Darrell

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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Estrange, L.

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