Motivational Quotes

Character

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

- Oscar Levant

Best Quotes about Character

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

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

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

Voltaire

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Chambers, Oswald

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

10.

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Gill, Vince

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

Collins, Marva

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Hay, Colin

25.

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

26.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

27.

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

Peter The Great

28.

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

29.

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

Seneca

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Howell, Harry

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mohammed

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Guideposts

46.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil