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

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio