Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Taylor, Bayard

Best Quotes about Character

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buddha

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Shakespeare, William

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Proverb

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Hall, Manly

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Royal, Darrell

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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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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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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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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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.

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.