Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Character

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

Horace

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Bible

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Gill, Vince

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Estrange, L.

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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's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hall, Manly

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mason, John L.

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