Motivational Quotes

Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Character

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Thurber, James

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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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 better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

James A. Froude

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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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

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

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush