Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Bible

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

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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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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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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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Horace

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

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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

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

Guideposts

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

Hermann Hesse

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio