Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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.

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

Estrange, L.

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Thurber, James

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Mohammed

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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 a victory, not a gift.

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald