Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Solon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Chesterfield, Lord

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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 with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mason, John L.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Mohammed

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Guideposts

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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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

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

Proverb

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

40.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Michener, James A.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.