Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Merikare

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Bible

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Mason, John L.

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

Buddha

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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

19.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Hay, Colin

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Solon