Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- James A. Froude

Best Quotes about Character

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

James A. Froude

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.

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

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Horace

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

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

Buddha

10.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Hall, Manly

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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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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

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

23.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

25.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

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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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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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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

30.

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.

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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

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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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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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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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.

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

Solon

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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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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas