Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

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.

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

Hay, Colin

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Guideposts

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Mason, John L.

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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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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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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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Seneca

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.