Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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.

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

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

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.

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

Confucius

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Peter The Great

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Voltaire

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Mohammed