Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Character

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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.

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

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

James A. Froude

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

10.

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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

12.

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

Hermann Hesse

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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.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Solon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.