Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Character

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

10.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Thomas, John M.

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Peter The Great

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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.

41.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Proverb

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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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