Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Hall, Manly

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Confucius

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb

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

James A. Froude

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Estrange, L.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Merikare

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

Mason, John L.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Thurber, James

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Aristotle

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Thackeray, William M.