Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Voltaire

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

10.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Hay, Colin

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

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

34.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

35.

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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Royal, Darrell

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.