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

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

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.

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

Crisp, Quentin

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

10.

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

James A. Froude

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

12.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

14.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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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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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

26.

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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hermann Hesse

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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

42.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Merikare

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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 you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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