Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is our destiny.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Character

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Bible

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

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

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Thackeray, William M.

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.

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Buddha

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

Horace

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

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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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 must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Solon

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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

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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