Motivational Quotes

Character

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Character

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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

Collins, Marva

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

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.