Motivational Quotes

Character

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

- George Santayana

Best Quotes about Character

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

Buddha

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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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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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Proverb

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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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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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Seneca

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

Estrange, L.

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.