Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Best Quotes about Character

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

Buddha

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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.

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Merikare

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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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

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Francis Thompson

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Solon

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

Seneca

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.