Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Merikare

Best Quotes about Character

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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 a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

James A. Froude

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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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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 is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Bible

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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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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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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

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Euripides

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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