Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Bisset, Jacqueline

Best Quotes about Character

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

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

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

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

10.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

James A. Froude

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

32.

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 highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Solon

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Mason, John L.

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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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 a victory, not a gift.

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine