Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Royal, Darrell

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Hall, Manly

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

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Estrange, L.

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

Mason, John L.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Voltaire

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

Francis Thompson

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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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.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Mohammed

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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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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Bible

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Shakespeare, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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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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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio