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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Hay, Colin

10.

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

Solon

20.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

22.

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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mohammed

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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.

36.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Royal, Darrell

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Guideposts

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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