Motivational Quotes

Character

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

- Gardner, Ava

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

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.

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

Confucius

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

James A. Froude

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

Proverb

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buddha

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg