Motivational Quotes

Character

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

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

Mohammed

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.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Joan Didion

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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

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

Horace

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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.

35.

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

Voltaire

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Hay, Colin

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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