Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Hay, Colin

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Seneca

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

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Guideposts

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

Euripides

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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