Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Character

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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.

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

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Estrange, L.

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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Thomas, John M.

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

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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

Bible

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Seneca

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