Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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 our destiny.

Heraclitus

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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