Motivational Quotes

Character

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

- Chambers, Oswald

Best Quotes about Character

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Guideposts

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Royal, Darrell

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Confucius

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Hay, Colin

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.