Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Horace

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Confucius

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

Voltaire

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Merikare

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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.

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

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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.