Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

Proverb

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

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Solon

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

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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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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Freeman, Robert

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Estrange, L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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.