Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hay, Colin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hermann Hesse

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Horace

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Estrange, L.

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

Bible

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Mason, John L.

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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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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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