Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Buddha

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

Hall, Manly

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

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

Euripides

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Guideposts

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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

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

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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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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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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.

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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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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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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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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 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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hay, Colin

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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