Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

- Aristotle

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

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thomas, John M.

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

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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Hay, Colin

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

Proverb

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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 in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Horace

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.