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

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.

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

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.

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

Chambers, Oswald

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Thurber, James

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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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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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Voltaire

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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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 to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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

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

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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

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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

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hay, Colin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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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.