Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Best Quotes about Character

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

Aristotle

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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

Merikare

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hay, Colin

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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.

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

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Shakespeare, William

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