Motivational Quotes

Character

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Character

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

10.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

12.

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

13.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

20.

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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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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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 would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

24.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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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.

27.

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

Royal, Darrell

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

29.

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

Bible

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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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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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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

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

40.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

44.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

45.

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

Thurber, James

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