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

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

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Thackeray, William M.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Michener, James A.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Horace

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Mason, John L.

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Mohammed

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

Royal, Darrell

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Estrange, L.

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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.