Motivational Quotes

Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Character

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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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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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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 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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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Seneca

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

Mason, John L.

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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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