Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Taylor, Bayard

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Mason, John L.

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

Seneca

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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus