Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Baldwin, Faith

Best Quotes about Character

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

Seneca

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

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

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Peter The Great

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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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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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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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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Buddha

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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush