Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Hay, Colin

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

Merikare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Michener, James A.

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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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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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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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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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.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.