Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Character

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

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

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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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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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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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Mason, John L.

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Michener, James A.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Buddha

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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

James A. Froude

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hermann Hesse

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