Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Fitzwater, P. B.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Buddha

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.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

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

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Aristotle

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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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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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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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

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Freeman, Robert

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Shakespeare, William

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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

Estrange, L.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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 lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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 part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

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