Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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.

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Howell, Harry

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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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Luther, John

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Collins, Marva

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Hay, Colin

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

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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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 is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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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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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 only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Bible

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

Merikare

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Estrange, L.

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

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Guideposts

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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