Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Character

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hall, Manly

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hay, Colin

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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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

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

Voltaire

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Mohammed

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Michener, James A.

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

Marie Leneru

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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