Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Royal, Darrell

Best Quotes about Character

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

Guideposts

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

Chambers, Oswald

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Merikare

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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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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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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Elihu Burritt

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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Peter The Great

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea