Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Elihu Burritt

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Collins, Marva

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.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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 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

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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

Seneca

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

Mohammed

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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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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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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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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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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo