Motivational Quotes

Character

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Character

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Hermann Hesse

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mohammed

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.

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

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

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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Merikare

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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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.

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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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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 are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Buddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.