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

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.

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

Joan Didion

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Proverb

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

Elihu Burritt

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

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 is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Bible

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Solon

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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

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

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Mohammed

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo