Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Character

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

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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.

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

Marie Leneru

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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

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Leneru, Marie

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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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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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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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

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

Voltaire

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.