Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Voltaire

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hay, Colin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Proverb, Chinese

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Collins, Marva

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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon