Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Royal, Darrell

Best Quotes about Character

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Buddha

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Peter The Great

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Hay, Colin

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Freeman, Robert

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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.

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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