Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Character

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

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.

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

Thomas, John M.

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bible

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

Aristotle

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Horace

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Royal, Darrell