Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

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.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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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 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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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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 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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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

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.