Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Petrarch, Francesco

Best Quotes about Character

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mohammed

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Royal, Darrell

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

11.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Confucius

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Bible

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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.

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

Guideposts

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

43.

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 not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Seneca

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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