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

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Greeley, Horace

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

10.

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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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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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Horace

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Voltaire

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

Bible

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

Reagan, Ronald

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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