Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

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

Aristotle

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mohammed

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

19.

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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hay, Colin

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Merikare

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mason, John L.

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Bible

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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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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Solon

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

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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

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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