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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

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.

Churchill, Winston

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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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 rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Maritain, Jacques

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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Proverb

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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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hall, Manly

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson