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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Freeman, Robert

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

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

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Seneca

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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

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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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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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Hall, Manly

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

Solon

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Mason, John L.

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Guideposts

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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Bible

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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.