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

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

Chambers, Oswald

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Collins, Marva

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

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

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Horace

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Confucius

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Brown, Les

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Seneca

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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.

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

Hay, Colin

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.