Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Character

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

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

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Euripides

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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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

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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 to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Proverb

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Seneca

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Horace