Motivational Quotes

Character

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

- Montale, Eugenio

Best Quotes about Character

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Francis Thompson

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

Gill, Vince

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

10.

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

11.

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

12.

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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

15.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

Joan Didion

21.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Bible

24.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

25.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

26.

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

27.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

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

Proverb

29.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

30.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aristotle

33.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

35.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

46.

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

Thurber, James