Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Thomas, John M.

Best Quotes about Character

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Bible

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Guideposts

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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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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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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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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 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 the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Gill, Vince

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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