Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Character

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.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Estrange, L.

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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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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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

Collins, Marva

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

Mason, John L.

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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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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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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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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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 the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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