Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is simply habit long continued.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Character

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Bible

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

Mohammed

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Collins, Marva

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.