Motivational Quotes

Character

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

- Francis, Clarence

Best Quotes about Character

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

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

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

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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 victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Voltaire

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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Guideposts

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Mohammed

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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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

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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