Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Character

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Hall, Manly

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

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Proverb

13.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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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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 highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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

30.

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

31.

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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, 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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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

39.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

46.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony