Motivational Quotes

Character

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

- Frankfurter, Felix

Best Quotes about Character

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Euripides

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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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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bible

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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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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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

Estrange, L.

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

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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 a victory, not a gift.

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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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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 is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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.