Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

11.

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

James A. Froude

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

Brown, Les

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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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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Voltaire

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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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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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 a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

32.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

34.

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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Merikare

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Guideposts

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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

Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von