Motivational Quotes

Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Character

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Euripides

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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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

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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Hay, Colin

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Reagan, Ronald