Motivational Quotes

Character

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hay, Colin

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

James A. Froude

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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

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

Hall, Manly

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

Bible

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.