Motivational Quotes

Character

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

- Taylor, Bayard

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

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

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Voltaire

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

Collins, Marva

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Michener, James A.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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