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

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Peter The Great

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Michener, James A.

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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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

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant