Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Horace

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

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

Michener, James A.

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

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mohammed

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

Guideposts

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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 victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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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 cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Gill, Vince

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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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 the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.