Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Thomas, John M.

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Thomas, John M.

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

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

Joan Didion

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Reagan, Ronald

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Freeman, Robert

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

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

Mohammed

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Buddha

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

Voltaire

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Estrange, L.