Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Frankfurter, Felix

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Horace

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

Solon

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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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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

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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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

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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 is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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 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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Estrange, L.

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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