Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Hall, Manly

11.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Brown, Les

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Horace

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Marie Leneru

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

James A. Froude

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

36.

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

Lippmann, Walter

37.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Hermann Hesse

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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.