Motivational Quotes

Character

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

- Oscar Levant

Best Quotes about Character

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

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

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Peter The Great

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Baldwin, Faith

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.