Motivational Quotes

Character

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

- Hay, Colin

Best Quotes about Character

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Proverb

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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.