Motivational Quotes

Character

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

- Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Best Quotes about Character

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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.

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Royal, Darrell

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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 don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Collins, Marva

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

Michener, James A.

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Hay, Colin

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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