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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

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.

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

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

Nathaniel Emmons

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Horace

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb

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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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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mason, John L.

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Estrange, L.

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques