Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

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

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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 take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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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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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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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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 a victory, not a gift.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Collins, Marva

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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