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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Aristotle

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

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

Buddha

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hall, Manly

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

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

Hermann Hesse

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Thurber, James

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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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