Motivational Quotes

Character

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Character

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

Proverb

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Seneca

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Horace

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

Mohammed

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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