Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Frankfurter, Felix

Best Quotes about Character

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

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

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

Hay, Colin

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.

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Buddha

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hall, Manly

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

Collins, Marva

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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

James A. Froude

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.