Motivational Quotes

Character

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

- Mason, John L.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Voltaire

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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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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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Thomas, John M.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Buddha

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hermann Hesse

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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

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 is a victory, not a gift.

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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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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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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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