Motivational Quotes

Character

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

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

Buddha

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

Estrange, L.

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

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

10.

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

Thurber, James

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Hay, Colin

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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

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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

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Voltaire

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

41.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Merikare

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

Royal, Darrell

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character is a victory, not a gift.