Motivational Quotes

Character

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

- Linall Jr. A. L.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Francis Thompson

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

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Michener, James A.

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

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

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.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Hermann Hesse

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Confucius

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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 is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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

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

Hay, Colin

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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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

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell