Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Character

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

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

Solon

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

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

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Mohammed

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

Michener, James A.

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Voltaire

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.