Motivational Quotes

Character

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

- Nathaniel Emmons

Best Quotes about Character

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

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Seneca

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

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aristotle

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Leneru, Marie

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.