Motivational Quotes

Character

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Character

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Merikare

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

Hall, Manly

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Proverb

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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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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Collins, Marva

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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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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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

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Horace

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August