Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Character

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Guideposts

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Solon

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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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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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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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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Estrange, L.

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Hay, Colin

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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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