Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Character

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

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

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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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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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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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

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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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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.

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Estrange, L.

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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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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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Proverb

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hay, Colin