Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Best Quotes about Character

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Francis Thompson

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thurber, James

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hay, Colin

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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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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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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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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Bible

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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