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

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Confucius

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

Lippmann, Walter

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Hall, Manly

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Seneca

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Collins, Marva

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aristotle

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.