Motivational Quotes

Character

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

- Chambers, Oswald

Best Quotes about Character

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Hermann Hesse

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Collins, Marva

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

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

30.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Seneca

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

35.

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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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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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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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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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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Solon

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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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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 in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald