Motivational Quotes

Character

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

- George Santayana

Best Quotes about Character

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thackeray, William M.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Hall, Manly

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

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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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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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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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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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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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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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Solon

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon