Motivational Quotes

Character

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

- Lebowitz, Fran

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Hay, Colin

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

Chesterfield, Lord

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Karr, Alphonse

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Peter The Great

13.

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

17.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

24.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

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

27.

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.

28.

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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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

30.

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

31.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

32.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

35.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

36.

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

37.

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

38.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

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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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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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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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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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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