Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Character

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Joan Didion

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Voltaire

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Elihu Burritt

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

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle