Motivational Quotes

Character

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Character

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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.

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

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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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

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Bible

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

28.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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 consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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