Motivational Quotes

Character

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Character

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Seneca

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

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shakespeare, William

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

29.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Mohammed

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio