Motivational Quotes

Character

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

- Lubbock, Sir John

Best Quotes about Character

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Confucius

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.

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Michener, James A.

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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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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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Baldwin, Faith

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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.