Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Brown, Les

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.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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.

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

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

Estrange, L.

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

Hall, Manly

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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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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Brown, Les

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

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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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.

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Leneru, Marie

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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