Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Estrange, L.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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.

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

Solon

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Voltaire

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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.

19.

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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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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 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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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Guideposts

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

Shakespeare, William

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.