Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hall, Manly

Best Quotes about Character

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

Collins, Marva

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

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.

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

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

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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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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Hall, Manly

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Seneca

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Proverb

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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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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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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter