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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Hay, Colin

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Chambers, Oswald

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Mason, John L.

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

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

Hermann Hesse

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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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

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

Peter The Great

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

Collins, Marva

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Mohammed

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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