Motivational Quotes

Character

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Character

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Mohammed

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Karr, Alphonse

10.

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

Gill, Vince

11.

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

Joan Didion

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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 lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

14.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Royal, Darrell

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb

21.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

42.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Hall, Manly

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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

49.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

50.

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