Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Hermann Hesse

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Solon

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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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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Francis, Clarence

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

Bible

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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony