Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Estrange, L.

Best Quotes about Character

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

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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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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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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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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Solon

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Mohammed

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Hay, Colin

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Confucius

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Marie Leneru

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von