Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Aristotle

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

10.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

11.

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

Voltaire

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Bible

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Guideposts

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Mohammed

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

34.

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

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

Euripides

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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

43.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.