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

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Estrange, L.

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

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

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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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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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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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Brown, Les

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

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

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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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