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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Brown, Les

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Voltaire

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Euripides

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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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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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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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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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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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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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

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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Horace