Motivational Quotes

Character

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

- Gardner, Ava

Best Quotes about Character

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

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

James A. Froude

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Mason, John L.

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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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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Thomas, John M.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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