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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Baldwin, Faith

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Freeman, Robert

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

35.

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

36.

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

Merikare

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

James A. Froude

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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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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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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.