Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Royal, Darrell

Best Quotes about Character

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

James A. Froude

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Peter The Great

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

Guideposts

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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

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

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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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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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

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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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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

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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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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

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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 a victory, not a gift.

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

Thurber, James

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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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