Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Michener, James A.

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Aristotle

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Collins, Marva

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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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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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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Seneca

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus