Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

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

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

Seneca

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Hall, Manly

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Confucius

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Thurber, James

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

James A. Froude

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

Horace

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon