Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Royal, Darrell

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hay, Colin

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

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.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Baldwin, Faith

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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.

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Hermann Hesse

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Horace

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

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

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John