Motivational Quotes

Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Character

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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

Guideposts

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Mason, John L.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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

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

Hall, Manly

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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

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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 a victory, not a gift.

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Seneca

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Brown, Les

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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