Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hall, Manly

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

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

Solon

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

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

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Royal, Darrell

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

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

Peter The Great

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Michener, James A.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

19.

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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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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

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Voltaire

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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