Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Marie Leneru

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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 our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Thomas, John M.

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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.

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Mason, John L.

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Bible

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Proverb

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

James A. Froude

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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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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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.

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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, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

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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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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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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