Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

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

Guideposts

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Gill, Vince

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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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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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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

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

Mohammed

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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

Bible

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

Solon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Chambers, Oswald

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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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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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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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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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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