Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Best Quotes about Character

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

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Baldwin, Faith

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Bible

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

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Merikare

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mohammed

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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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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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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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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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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.