Motivational Quotes

Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Character

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Hay, Colin

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

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Mohammed

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hall, Manly

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Horace

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Freeman, Robert

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Brown, Les

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Guideposts

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Aristotle

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon