Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Maritain, Jacques

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hall, Manly

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Horace

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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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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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Joan Didion

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Mason, John L.

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

Royal, Darrell

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Proverb

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt