Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Proverb

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Estrange, L.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.