Motivational Quotes

Character

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

- Bounds, E. M.

Best Quotes about Character

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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 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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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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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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Proverb

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.