Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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.

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

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Mohammed

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Hermann Hesse

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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

James A. Froude

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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

Michener, James A.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.