Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Bisset, Jacqueline

Best Quotes about Character

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Merikare

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Hay, Colin

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.