Motivational Quotes

Character

A rich man has no need of character.

- Proverb, Hebrew

Best Quotes about Character

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

Francis Thompson

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

Buddha

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

Marie Leneru

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

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

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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 to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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.

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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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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

James A. Froude

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline