Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Best Quotes about Character

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Francis Thompson

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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.

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

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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

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

Estrange, L.

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

Merikare

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Horace

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Seneca

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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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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hay, Colin

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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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

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Mason, John L.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.