Motivational Quotes

Character

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

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

Taylor, Bayard

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Euripides

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

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hall, Manly

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

Horace

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

Buddha

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Howell, Harry

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