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

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

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

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

Voltaire

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Character is a victory, not a gift.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

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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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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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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Mohammed

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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.