Motivational Quotes

Character

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

- Taylor, Bayard

Best Quotes about Character

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Bible

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

10.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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

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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

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Baldwin, Faith

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Elmer G. Letterman

43.

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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson