Motivational Quotes

Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Character

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

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

Nathaniel Emmons

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

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

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Michener, James A.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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 is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

21.

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

23.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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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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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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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

31.

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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Thurber, James

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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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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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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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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Richter, Jean Paul