Motivational Quotes

Character

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Character

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.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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.

Marie Leneru

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Hay, Colin

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Buddha

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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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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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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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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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