Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is simply habit long continued.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Character

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

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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.

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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Hermann Hesse

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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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 is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hall, Manly

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Merikare

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Mohammed

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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 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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Guideposts

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Royal, Darrell

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.