Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Thackeray, William M.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Horace

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.

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

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Solon

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

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hall, Manly

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

Brown, Les

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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