Motivational Quotes

Character

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Character

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Proverb

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

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Hermann Hesse

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Buddha

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar