Motivational Quotes

Character

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Character

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

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

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

Thomas, John M.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

12.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Hall, Manly

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

17.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

22.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Mohammed

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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

30.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

32.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

33.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

34.

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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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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

41.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Horace

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De