Motivational Quotes

Character

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Character

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

James A. Froude

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

Thomas, Isiah

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Proverb

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

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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 real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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

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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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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Estrange, L.

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

Mason, John L.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Proverb

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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