Motivational Quotes

Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Character

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

Confucius

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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.

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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

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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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

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Hall, Manly

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

Marie Leneru

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Buddha

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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 higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Hermann Hesse

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Seneca