Motivational Quotes

Character

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Character

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Thomas, John M.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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 man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Collins, Marva

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hall, Manly

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Estrange, L.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Thurber, James

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Solon

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.