Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thurber, James

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Proverb

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

Peter The Great

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Horace

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Mohammed

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Francis Thompson

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.