Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Royal, Darrell

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

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

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

12.

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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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

20.

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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

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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Michener, James A.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Solon

41.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Reagan, Ronald

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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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.