Motivational Quotes

Character

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

- Marie Henri Beyle

Best Quotes about Character

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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

Merikare

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

Proverb

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

21.

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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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard 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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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

31.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Solon

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Horace

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Estrange, L.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.

49.

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

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von