Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Character

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

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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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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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

20.

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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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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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 without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Aristotle

43.

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

Voltaire

45.

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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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.