Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Royal, Darrell

Best Quotes about Character

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Royal, Darrell

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Maritain, Jacques

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Solon

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

Hermann Hesse

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Confucius

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

Bible

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Proverb

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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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.