Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Chambers, Oswald

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Lubbock, Sir John

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Voltaire

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

Peter The Great

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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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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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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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 higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Freeman, Robert

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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