Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Character

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

Proverb, Chinese

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Buddha

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

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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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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hermann Hesse

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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