Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is our destiny.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Character

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Gill, Vince

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

Proverb

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Michener, James A.

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Collins, Marva

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Seneca

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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

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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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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Solon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.