Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about 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

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Buddha

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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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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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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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

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Voltaire

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

Solon

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Horace

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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