Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Fitzwater, P. B.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Aristotle

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Hall, Manly

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Bible

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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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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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 is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Michener, James A.

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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

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

Maritain, Jacques

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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.