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

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

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Hay, Colin

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Michener, James A.

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon