Motivational Quotes

Character

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

- Nathaniel Emmons

Best Quotes about Character

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

Merikare

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

Buddha

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

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

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

Collins, Marva

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

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

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

Guideposts

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

Voltaire

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Solon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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

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