Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Estrange, L.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Howell, Harry

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

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.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Collins, Marva

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Confucius

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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 isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Guideposts

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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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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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.