Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Francis Thompson

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

Voltaire

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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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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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Estrange, L.

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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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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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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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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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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Shakespeare, William

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Solon

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

James A. Froude

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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Buddha

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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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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston