Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Character

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hall, Manly

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Voltaire

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Leneru, Marie

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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

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo