Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Royal, Darrell

Best Quotes about Character

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Gill, Vince

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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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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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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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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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

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Francis Thompson

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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