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

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

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

Shakespeare, William

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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

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

Bible

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

Brown, Les

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Proverb

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Joan Didion

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.