Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Peter The Great

Best Quotes about Character

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Guideposts

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Estrange, L.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.