Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Gill, Vince

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Michener, James A.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Euripides

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Horace

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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Guideposts

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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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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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 - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mason, John L.

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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 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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.