Motivational Quotes

Character

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

- Merikare

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Brown, Les

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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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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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Bible

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Richter, Jean Paul