Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Royal, Darrell

Best Quotes about Character

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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.

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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Hermann Hesse

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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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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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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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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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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.