Motivational Quotes

Character

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

- Abbott, Lyman

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Chambers, Oswald

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.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Petrarch, Francesco

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Merikare

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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Royal, Darrell

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.