Motivational Quotes

Character

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Character

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Peter The Great

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Aristotle

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Voltaire

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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

Solon

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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.

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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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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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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

37.

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

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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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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.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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