Motivational Quotes

Character

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

- Marie Henri Beyle

Best Quotes about Character

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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.

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

Buddha

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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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

Estrange, L.

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Horace

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Aristotle

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George