Motivational Quotes

Character

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

- Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Best Quotes about Character

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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 to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Buddha

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Royal, Darrell

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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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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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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