Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Elihu Burritt

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

Hay, Colin

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Voltaire

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Collins, Marva

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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Solon

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Merikare

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Guideposts

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Seneca

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham