Motivational Quotes

Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Howell, Harry

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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.

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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.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Proverb

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.