Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Character

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

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

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.

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

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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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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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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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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.

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is our destiny.