Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Royal, Darrell

Best Quotes about Character

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

Character is a victory, not a gift.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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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.

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

Buddha

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

Confucius

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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 victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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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

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

Michener, James A.

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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 what you know you are, not what others think you have.