Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Thurber, James

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

Petrarch, Francesco

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Mason, John L.

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Estrange, L.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Horace

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

Mohammed

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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

Proverb

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Hall, Manly

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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