Motivational Quotes

Character

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Character

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Thurber, James

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

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.

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

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Solon

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Freeman, Robert

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Proverb

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Horace

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Merikare

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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

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Richter, Jean Paul