Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Character

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

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

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

Solon

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

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

Hall, Manly

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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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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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Horace

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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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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 is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Francis Thompson

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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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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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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Merikare

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Confucius