Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Mason, John L.

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

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

Hay, Colin

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Gill, Vince

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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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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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Bible

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

Royal, Darrell

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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

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

Estrange, L.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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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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.