Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Guideposts

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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 a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bible

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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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

28.

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

Seneca

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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 must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

34.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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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