Motivational Quotes

Character

Integrity has no need of rules.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

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.

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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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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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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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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Voltaire

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Proverb

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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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

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

Buddha

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas