Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Character

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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

Buddha

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Gill, Vince

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Greeley, Horace

27.

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

Bible

28.

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 the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mohammed

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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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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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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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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 four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mason, John L.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin