Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Best Quotes about Character

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

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

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

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Buddha

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb

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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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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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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

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Freeman, Robert

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Merikare

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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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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman