Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Buddha

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.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Luther, John

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

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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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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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 man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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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

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von