Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Hall, Manly

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bible

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Hermann Hesse

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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 the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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.

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold