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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
Character Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Character

1.
Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.
Merikare

2.
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
Buddha

3.
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

4.
My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.
Arran, Earl of

5.
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Collins, Marva

6.
Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
George Santayana

7.
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

8.
When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.
Guideposts

9.
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire

10.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

11.
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
Freeman, Robert

12.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse

13.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius

14.
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Richards, Mary Caroline

15.
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.

16.
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

17.
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Angelou, Maya

18.
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

19.
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Baldwin, Faith

20.
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Chambers, Oswald

21.
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

22.
Too many lives are needed to make just one.
Montale, Eugenio

23.
Character development is the aim of education.
O'Shea

24.
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

25.
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold

26.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Richter, Jean Paul

27.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

28.
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Disraeli, Benjamin

29.
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.

30.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Washington, Booker T.

31.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon

32.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]
Bible

34.
Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

35.
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

36.
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Limbaugh, Rush

37.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

38.
Integrity has no need of rules.
Camus, Albert

39.
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Dyke, Henry Van

40.
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

41.
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

42.
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.

43.
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Lincoln, Abraham

45.
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.

46.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant

47.
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
Lubbock, Sir John

48.
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

49.
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Proverb, Chinese

50.
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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