Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Character

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Elmer G. Letterman

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Solon

14.

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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Proverb

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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

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

Aristotle

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

Mohammed

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Guideposts

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

41.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe