Motivational Quotes

Character

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

- Bounds, E. M.

Best Quotes about Character

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Solon

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Hay, Colin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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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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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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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mason, John L.

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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