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

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Buddha

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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Hermann Hesse

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Francis Thompson

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

Voltaire

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Collins, Marva

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bible

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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