Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Proverb

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

Greeley, Horace

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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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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mohammed

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Michener, James A.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Voltaire