Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Character

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Solon

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

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

11.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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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.

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

19.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

20.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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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

22.

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

Seneca

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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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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

25.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

28.

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

30.

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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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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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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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

35.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.