Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Character

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brown, Les

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thurber, James

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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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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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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Thoreau, Henry David