Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mason, John L.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Hermann Hesse

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Elihu Burritt

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus