Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Joan Didion

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Euripides

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

Guideposts

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

Voltaire

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Peter The Great

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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.

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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 highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

29.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

30.

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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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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

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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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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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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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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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