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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Hepburn, Katharine

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Estrange, L.

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

Horace

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Reagan, Ronald

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Hay, Colin

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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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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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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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

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.