Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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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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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Thomas, John M.

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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.