Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Bisset, Jacqueline

Best Quotes about Character

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Hall, Manly

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

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

12.

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

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

Mohammed

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Estrange, L.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Horace

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Merikare

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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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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.

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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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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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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 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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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Buddha

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

Joan Didion

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

Seneca

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van