Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bible

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

Michener, James A.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Horace

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Hall, Manly

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.