Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Bible

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

10.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

11.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Collins, Marva

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

34.

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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Voltaire

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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