Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Freeman, Robert

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Joan Didion

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Mohammed

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Hall, Manly

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

Confucius

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.