Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

- Collins, Marva

Best Quotes about Character

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Mason, John L.

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

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

Hall, Manly

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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

Thomas, John M.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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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 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

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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

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Seneca

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

Horace

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the 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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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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