Motivational Quotes
Character
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Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch, Francesco
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
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
Character development is the aim of education.
O'Shea
Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.
Linall Jr. A. L.
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
Proverb
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Richards, Mary Caroline
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
The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.
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
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Peter The Great
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
Horace
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Goldsmith, Oliver
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.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Richter, Jean Paul
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Karr, Alphonse
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
Taylor, Bayard
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
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Aquinas, St. Thomas
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
Parkhurst, Charles H.
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Jefferson, Thomas
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
Freeman, Robert
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
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.
Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.
Merikare
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Maritain, Jacques
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Gardner, Ava
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
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon
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
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Lincoln, Abraham
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
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
Thurber, James
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
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