Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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.

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

James A. Froude

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Voltaire

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

Angelou, Maya

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Chambers, Oswald

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Aristotle

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

32.

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

Mason, John L.

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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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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