Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Elmer G. Letterman

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hermann Hesse

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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

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Euripides

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

28.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.