Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Character

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Euripides

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

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

James A. Froude

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

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

Horace

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Solon

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

Collins, Marva

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Merikare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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