Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hall, Manly

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.

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

Royal, Darrell

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Aristotle

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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

Bible

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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 lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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