Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Proverb

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.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Solon

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Thomas, John M.

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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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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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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

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

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Estrange, L.

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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

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

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

Voltaire

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Disraeli, Benjamin