Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Character

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.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Thurber, James

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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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.

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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Estrange, L.

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.