Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hepburn, Katharine

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Aristotle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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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.

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

Brown, Les

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Collins, Marva

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

Hermann Hesse

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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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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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Royal, Darrell

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Leneru, Marie

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.