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

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

Gill, Vince

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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.

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.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

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

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Bible

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Freeman, Robert

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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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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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

32.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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

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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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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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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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe