Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Royal, Darrell

Best Quotes about Character

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

Mohammed

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Proverb, Chinese

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Bible

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

Confucius

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Hall, Manly

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

Buddha

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.