Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Character

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Leneru, Marie

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

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

Guideposts

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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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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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Bible

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.