Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Joan Didion

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

Chesterfield, Lord

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Buddha

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

Hermann Hesse

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Proverb

12.

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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Bible

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Confucius

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Horace