Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Character

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

Aristotle

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

Thomas, John M.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Mohammed

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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.

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Peter The Great

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Hall, Manly

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

Estrange, L.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Horace

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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.

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Voltaire

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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