Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Character

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Collins, Marva

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

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

10.

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hay, Colin

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

Seneca

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

Thomas, John M.

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

43.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Horace