Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Chambers, Oswald

Best Quotes about Character

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.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Freeman, Robert

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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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

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hall, Manly

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

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Francis Thompson

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Collins, Marva

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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

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horace

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Solon