Motivational Quotes

Character

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

- Abbott, Lyman

Best Quotes about Character

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Maritain, Jacques

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 be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Buddha

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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

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

Bible

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

Horace

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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 the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Proverb

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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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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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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Mohammed

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Shakespeare, William