Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Character

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Estrange, L.

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

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

Buddha

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

Euripides

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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 a victory, not a gift.