Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Greeley, Horace

Best Quotes about Character

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Horace

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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 cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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

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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hay, Colin

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Collins, Marva

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

Michener, James A.

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

Solon

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

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

Euripides

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van