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

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Michener, James A.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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 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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hall, Manly

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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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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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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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

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Guideposts

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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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