Motivational Quotes

Character

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

- Petrarch, Francesco

Best Quotes about Character

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Mohammed

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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.

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

Voltaire

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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 the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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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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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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