Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Proverb

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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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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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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 don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Freeman, Robert

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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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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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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus