Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hall, Manly

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

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

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Guideposts

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

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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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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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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Horace

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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