Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Estrange, L.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Thomas, John M.

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

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 a victory, not a gift.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Voltaire

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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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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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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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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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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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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.

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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Brown, Les

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana