Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Estrange, L.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Aristotle

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Hermann Hesse

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Solon

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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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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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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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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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