Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, 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

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

Bible

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.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Voltaire

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Seneca

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Collins, Marva

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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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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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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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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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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Merikare

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

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