Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

10.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

11.

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

Chambers, Oswald

12.

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

Buddha

14.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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 what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

21.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb

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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

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

26.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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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

40.

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

Angelou, Maya

42.

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

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

49.

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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.