Motivational Quotes

Character

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

- Abbott, Lyman

Best Quotes about Character

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Francis Thompson

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

Shakespeare, William

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Estrange, L.

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

Hermann Hesse

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

37.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Confucius

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Horace

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace