Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mohammed

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Hermann Hesse

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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

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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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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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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Proverb

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Freeman, Robert

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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Collins, Marva

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)