Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is simply habit long continued.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Character

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

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Reagan, Ronald

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Hall, Manly

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

Horace

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Estrange, L.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Collins, Marva

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Michener, James A.

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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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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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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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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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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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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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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