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

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Frankfurter, Felix

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Hay, Colin

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Mason, John L.

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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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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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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mohammed

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

Collins, Marva

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

Seneca

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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