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

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

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

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

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Estrange, L.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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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 to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

Hall, Manly

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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 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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.