Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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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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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Aristotle

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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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 - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.