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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Joan Didion

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Hay, Colin

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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

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Hall, Manly

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

Collins, Marva

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

31.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Estrange, L.

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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 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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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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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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Voltaire

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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