Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Buddha

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Guideposts

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Estrange, L.

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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 the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Collins, Marva

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, 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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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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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Aristotle