Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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.

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

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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Bible

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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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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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

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Estrange, L.

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Mohammed

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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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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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.