Motivational Quotes

Character

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

- Crisp, Quentin

Best Quotes about Character

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Confucius

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

Karr, Alphonse

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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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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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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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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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

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hermann Hesse

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Merikare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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

Hall, Manly

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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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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

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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