Motivational Quotes
Character
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Best Quotes about Character
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
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Disraeli, Benjamin
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
Mason, John L.
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter
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
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
Lowell, James Russell
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
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Fitzwater, P. B.
Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.
Thoreau, Henry David
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
Proverb
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.
Babson, Roger
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca
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
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
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
Thurber, James
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Lincoln, Abraham
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Proverb, Chinese
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.
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch, Francesco
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
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Michener, James A.
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
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
Taylor, Bayard
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Amiel, Henri Frederic
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Thoreau, Henry David
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
Hay, Colin
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Maritain, Jacques
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.
Hume, David
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
Horace
If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Thackeray, William M.
Character is our destiny.
Heraclitus
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Jefferson, Thomas
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
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.
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
Royal, Darrell
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Washington, Booker T.
Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Limbaugh, Rush
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.
To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Leneru, Marie
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
Elmer G. Letterman
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