Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Hall, Manly

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Hay, Colin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

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

Seneca

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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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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

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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

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

Aristotle

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Solon

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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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 contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese