Motivational Quotes

Character

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

- Gardner, Ava

Best Quotes about Character

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

Peter The Great

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Merikare

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Aristotle

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

Taylor, Bayard

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

16.

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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

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

Horace

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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.

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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Guideposts

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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.

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.