Motivational Quotes

Character

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

- Montale, Eugenio

Best Quotes about Character

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Proverb

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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

Frankfurter, Felix

10.

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

11.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

14.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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.

17.

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 character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

22.

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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

37.

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buddha

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Freeman, Robert