Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- James A. Froude

Best Quotes about Character

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Thurber, James

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Merikare

11.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Horace

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

31.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Euripides

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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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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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