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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Brown, Les

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

Seneca

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Greeley, Horace

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Hay, Colin

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

Michener, James A.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

Mason, John L.

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Merikare

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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