Motivational Quotes

Character

A rich man has no need of character.

- Proverb, Hebrew

Best Quotes about Character

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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.

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

Voltaire

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

Merikare

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Seneca

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

27.

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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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 victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Hall, Manly

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

Hay, Colin

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Mason, John L.

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

Michener, James A.

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.