Motivational Quotes

Character

A man's character is his fate.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Character

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Proverb

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Horace

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew