Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Best Quotes about Character

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Buddha

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Peter The Great

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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.

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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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