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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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.

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

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bible

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

26.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

27.

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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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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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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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Collins, Marva

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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 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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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