Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is simply habit long continued.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Character

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Hall, Manly

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

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Horace

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Proverb

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Estrange, L.

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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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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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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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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

Buddha

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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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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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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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

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

Guideposts

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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 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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava