Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Character

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

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.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Elihu Burritt

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

12.

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

13.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

14.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

19.

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Royal, Darrell

24.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

25.

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

26.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

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

29.

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 like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

31.

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

32.

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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Solon

37.

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

Guideposts

38.

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.

39.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

42.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

47.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon