Motivational Quotes

Character

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Character

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Howell, Harry

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.

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

Guideposts

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

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

Hall, Manly

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

Francis Thompson

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Solon

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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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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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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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 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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Mason, John L.

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

Seneca

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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

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Character is a victory, not a gift.