Motivational Quotes

Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

- Limbaugh, Rush

Best Quotes about Character

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Confucius

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

Seneca

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Thomas, John M.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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 contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Hay, Colin

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Horace

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Guideposts

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

Aristotle

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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