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

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bible

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

Character is a victory, not a gift.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Confucius

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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Euripides

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Mason, John L.

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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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 depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen