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

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

Hall, Manly

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

Francis Thompson

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

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

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

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Horace

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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.

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Estrange, L.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Seneca

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar