Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Character

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

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Freeman, Robert

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

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

Horace

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bible

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

Hay, Colin

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Solon

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Seneca

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Collins, Marva

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mason, John L.

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

Royal, Darrell

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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