Motivational Quotes

Character

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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

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

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.

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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Michener, James A.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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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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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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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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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

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

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