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 best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Seneca

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

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

Peter The Great

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Royal, Darrell

12.

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

13.

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

14.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

15.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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

18.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

19.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

20.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

21.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

23.

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

Mason, John L.

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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

25.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

31.

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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

34.

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

Michener, James A.

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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

36.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

38.

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

40.

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

Guideposts

41.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Euripides

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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