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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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.

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

Buddha

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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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

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

James A. Froude

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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 real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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