Motivational Quotes

Character

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

- Taylor, Bayard

Best Quotes about Character

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Guideposts

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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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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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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

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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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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

35.

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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

37.

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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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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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

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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.

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Estrange, L.

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

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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