Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Royal, Darrell

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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.

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

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Michener, James A.

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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese