Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Character

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

Solon

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Guideposts

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

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

Voltaire

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hall, Manly

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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

Seneca

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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 that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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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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