Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lubbock, Sir John

Best Quotes about Character

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Solon

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Hall, Manly

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

Baldwin, Faith

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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

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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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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.

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Francis Thompson

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