Motivational Quotes

Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Character

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

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

Voltaire

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Freeman, Robert

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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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 only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.