Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Character

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

10.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

11.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

13.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

14.

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.

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richter, Jean Paul

17.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

18.

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

19.

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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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

22.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

24.

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

Thomas, John M.

25.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

27.

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

Peter The Great

28.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

29.

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

Mason, John L.

30.

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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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.

32.

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

33.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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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 a victory, not a gift.

38.

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

39.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

40.

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

Hermann Hesse

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Voltaire

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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