Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Proverb

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

Leneru, Marie

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

10.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

11.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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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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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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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 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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Royal, Darrell

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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.

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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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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