Motivational Quotes

Character

A rich man has no need of character.

- Proverb, Hebrew

Best Quotes about Character

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.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

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

Michener, James A.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Bible

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

Estrange, L.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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

28.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Solon

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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

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Peter The Great

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle