Motivational Quotes

Character

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

- Montale, Eugenio

Best Quotes about Character

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

Royal, Darrell

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Solon

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

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

Merikare

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Chambers, Oswald

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

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

Seneca

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Mohammed

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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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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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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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.