Motivational Quotes

Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hall, Manly

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Baldwin, Faith

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Mason, John L.

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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 like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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

Royal, Darrell

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Hay, Colin

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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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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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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August