Motivational Quotes

Character

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

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.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

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

Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Peter The Great

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Freeman, Robert

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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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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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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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

29.

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

Bible

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Royal, Darrell

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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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 is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Hermann Hesse

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.