Motivational Quotes

Character

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

- Maritain, Jacques

Best Quotes about Character

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

Elihu Burritt

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Mohammed

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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.

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hay, Colin

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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Mason, John L.

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

Bible

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Solon

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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 builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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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.

Marie Leneru

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo