Motivational Quotes

Character

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

- Montale, Eugenio

Best Quotes about Character

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Guideposts

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

Solon

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

James A. Froude

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Francis Thompson

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

Collins, Marva

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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.

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

Merikare

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

Mason, John L.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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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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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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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston