Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

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

Buddha

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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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

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

Aristotle

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

James A. Froude

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Seneca

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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 victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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.