Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Bisset, Jacqueline

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hall, Manly

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

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.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mason, John L.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Guideposts

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Royal, Darrell

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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.

32.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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