Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Character

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maritain, Jacques

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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.

10.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Gill, Vince

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Aristotle

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Solon

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

27.

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

Voltaire

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Buddha

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

Euripides

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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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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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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Michener, James A.

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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.