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

Best Quotes about Character
No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.
Merikare
When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.
Guideposts
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Frankfurter, Felix
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Limbaugh, Rush
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle
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.
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.
Bulger, William M.
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
Thurber, James
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
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
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. Somerset Maugham
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
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Michener, James A.
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 higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.
Character is a victory, not a gift.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
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
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Thoreau, Henry David
You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.
Francis, Clarence
A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Angelou, Maya
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
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
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
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant
The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
Hay, Colin
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
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.
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Bisset, Jacqueline
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Fitzwater, P. B.
Too many lives are needed to make just one.
Montale, Eugenio
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Washington, Booker T.
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Buren, Abigail Van
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Proverb, Chinese
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Shakespeare, William
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