Motivational Quotes

Character

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Karr, Alphonse

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Voltaire

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Hall, Manly

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

40.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham