Motivational Quotes

Character

Character development is the aim of education.

- O'Shea

Best Quotes about Character

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

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

James A. Froude

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Solon

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

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

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

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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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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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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

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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

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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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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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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg