Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

James A. Froude

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Horace

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Voltaire

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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