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

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Seneca

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

13.

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

Brown, Les

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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

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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 be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Mason, John L.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Proverb

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.