Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Maritain, Jacques

Best Quotes about Character

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

Joan Didion

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Voltaire

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hall, Manly

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Estrange, L.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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