Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Shakespeare, William

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Horace

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

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Mason, John L.

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Angelou, Maya

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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

Buddha

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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

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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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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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