Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Character

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Aristotle

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Hall, Manly

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

Seneca

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Mohammed

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Collins, Marva

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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