Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Crisp, Quentin

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Hall, Manly

Luther, John

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.

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

Estrange, L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Guideposts

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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 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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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.

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

Mohammed

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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

39.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Peter The Great