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 to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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

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

James A. Froude

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Thurber, James

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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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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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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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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.

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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Estrange, L.

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Seneca

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Mason, John L.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett