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

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

Hay, Colin

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Mohammed

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

Mason, John L.

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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 consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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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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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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

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

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

James A. Froude

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

Hermann Hesse

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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