Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

Hall, Manly

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

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Estrange, L.

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Mason, John L.

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

Buddha

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah