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

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.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Buddha

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Seneca

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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Peter The Great

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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus