Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Character

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Voltaire

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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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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 highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Freeman, Robert

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Michener, James A.

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

Brown, Les

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

42.

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

Euripides

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

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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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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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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.

48.

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

Bible

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Proverb, Chinese