Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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

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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 is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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

Mason, John L.

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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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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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

Hermann Hesse

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon