Motivational Quotes

Character

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Solon

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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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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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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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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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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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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William 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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Proverb

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.