Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Character

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

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hay, Colin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Voltaire

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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

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

Confucius

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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

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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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

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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Euripides

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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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

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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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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Collins, Marva

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe