Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Character

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Solon

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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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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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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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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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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Reagan, Ronald

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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.

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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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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon