Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Hall, Manly

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Euripides

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Bible

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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 you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Seneca

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brown, Les

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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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

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Collins, Marva

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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.