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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Hay, Colin

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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 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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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Voltaire

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Guideposts

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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