Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Crisp, Quentin

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Buddha

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Michener, James A.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Aristotle

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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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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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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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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 rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew