Motivational Quotes

Character

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

- Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Best Quotes about 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

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

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

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

Freeman, Robert

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Gill, Vince

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

James A. Froude

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

Mason, John L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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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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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Merikare

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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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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

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio