Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

Voltaire

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Howell, Harry

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Seneca

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Bible

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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

James A. Froude

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Confucius

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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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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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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