Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Mason, John L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

James A. Froude

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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

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

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Hermann Hesse

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Hall, Manly

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

Aristotle

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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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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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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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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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