Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Francis Thompson

Best Quotes about Character

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Seneca

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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.

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Buddha

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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.