Motivational Quotes

Character

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Character

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Bible

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Brown, Les

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

Gill, Vince

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

12.

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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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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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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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

23.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Solon

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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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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Thurber, James

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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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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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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Voltaire

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Seneca

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