Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

Proverb

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Horace

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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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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Thurber, James

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Royal, Darrell

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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.