Motivational Quotes

Character

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Character

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his 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

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

Estrange, L.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb

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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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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

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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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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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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

James A. Froude

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